Learning from suboptimal demonstration via self-supervised reward regression

L Chen, R Paleja, M Gombolay - Conference on robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Learning from Demonstration (LfD) seeks to democratize robotics by enabling non-
roboticist end-users to teach robots to perform a task by providing a human demonstration …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning for precise soccer shooting skills using a quadrupedal robot

Y Ji, Z Li, Y Sun, XB Peng, S Levine… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of enabling quadrupedal robots to perform precise shooting skills
in the real world using reinforcement learning. Develo** algorithms to enable a legged …

Learning robot skills with temporal variational inference

T Shankar, A Gupta - International Conference on Machine …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we address the discovery of robotic options from demonstrations in an
unsupervised manner. Specifically, we present a framework to jointly learn low-level control …

Training agents with interactive reinforcement learning and contextual affordances

F Cruz, S Magg, C Weber… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the future, robots will be used more extensively as assistants in home scenarios and must
be able to acquire expertise from trainers by learning through crossmodal interaction. One …

Discovering motor programs by recomposing demonstrations

T Shankar, S Tulsiani, L Pinto… - … Conference on Learning …, 2019 - openreview.net
In this paper, we present an approach to learn recomposable motor primitives across large-
scale and diverse manipulation demonstrations. Current approaches to decomposing …

[HTML][HTML] Robot skill learning in latent space of a deep autoencoder neural network

Z Lončarević, A Gams, A Ude - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Just like humans, robots can improve their performance by practicing, ie by performing the
desired behavior many times and updating the underlying skill representation using the …

Hierarchically decoupled imitation for morphological transfer

D Hejna, L Pinto, P Abbeel - International Conference on …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning long-range behaviors on complex high-dimensional agents is a fundamental
problem in robot learning. For such tasks, we argue that transferring learned information …

Joint goal and strategy inference across heterogeneous demonstrators via reward network distillation

L Chen, R Paleja, M Ghuy, M Gombolay - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success as a general framework for
learning how to make decisions. However, this success relies on the interactive hand-tuning …

Interactive reinforcement learning through speech guidance in a domestic scenario

F Cruz, J Twiefel, S Magg, C Weber… - 2015 international joint …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently robots are being used more frequently as assistants in domestic scenarios. In this
context we train an apprentice robot to perform a cleaning task using interactive …

Sample-efficient reinforcement learning in robotic table tennis

J Tebbe, L Krauch, Y Gao, A Zell - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved some impressive recent successes in various
computer games and simulations. Most of these successes are based on having large …